The only real feud that I have gotten into was with Bill Scott, the writer/voice of Bullwinkle J. Moose with Jay Ward. Scott dissed Japanese anime in the early 1980s, saying that it was really technically of very low quality. I said, "You should talk! Rocky and Bullwimkle may be brilliantly imaginative, but its animation is done by one of the cheapest studios in Mexico City and it sucks! Similarly, Japanese TV animation may be cheap but it employs animation techniques that are fresh to American audiences, and much of the visual direction is very imaginative for cheap animation." I did not win any supporters among the American professional community at the time; they all chanted, "Cheap animation! Cheap animation!" along with Scott. Talk about old white guys ,,, Anime did not come to be considered seriously by the American animation community until new animators began to replace the Old Guard in the 1990s.
The only real feud that I have gotten into was with Bill Scott, the writer/voice of Bullwinkle J. Moose with Jay Ward. Scott dissed Japanese anime in the early 1980s, saying that it was really technically of very low quality. I said, "You should talk! Rocky and Bullwimkle may be brilliantly imaginative, but its animation is done by one of the cheapest studios in Mexico City and it sucks! Similarly, Japanese TV animation may be cheap but it employs animation techniques that are fresh to American audiences, and much of the visual direction is very imaginative for cheap animation." I did not win any supporters among the American professional community at the time; they all chanted, "Cheap animation! Cheap animation!" along with Scott. Talk about old white guys ,,, Anime did not come to be considered seriously by the American animation community until new animators began to replace the Old Guard in the 1990s.
Fred Patten